Climate change has a significant impact on crop productivity and food security. Crop plants need to have resilience to mitigate climate change-induced stresses. In field environments, crop plants often get exposed to harsh, fluctuating, and challenging environments, as well as changing climates with growing incidences of multiple abiotic stresses that can be dual, multifactorial, and/or sequential. The responses of plants to combinations of two or more (dual or multifactorial) stresses can not necessarily be extrapolated from their responses to individual stresses. Historically, most studies were aimed at understanding and deciphering plant responses and adaptation strategies against individual stresses ranging from deficiency/excess of water, hyper salinity, extreme or fluctuating temperatures, harmful UV rays, and heavy metals. But under actual field conditions, a complex interplay of multiple stresses occurs. Combined or sequential occurrences of abiotic stresses may have additional impacts on crop plants than individual occurrences. However, the complex stress responses triggered under combined or sequential stresses have been largely overlooked. Nevertheless, recent years have witnessed advocacy for comprehensive investigations to be undertaken aimed at investigating plant responses and adaptation strategies against combined stresses, including at physiological, cellular, and/or molecular levels. These investigations show us how plants fine-tune their responses through transcriptional/post-transcriptional regulations and regulatory networks.
This Research Topic aims at highlighting the latest advances in our understanding of plant responses and adaptation/tolerance to dual, multifactorial, and sequential abiotic stresses. A further objective is to introduce the advanced toolbox and technologies used in investigating and understanding the plant responses to combined and/or sequential stresses. Articles are expected to address and report current updates and recent advances in the physiological, molecular, and genetic perspectives of combined and sequential stress responses and tolerance in field crops.
Different types of manuscripts including Original Research articles, Method papers, Mini Reviews, Opinion papers, Perspective, Reviews, and Systematic Reviews are welcome from active researchers in this field. The scope of this Research Topic is centered on, but not limited to, the following:
• Crop plants under individual vs coupled abiotic stresses in field environments - stress adaptation and tolerance
• Transcriptional and/or post-transcriptional regulation of plant under combined or sequential abiotic stress scenarios
• Physiological, biochemical, cellular, and/or molecular responses of plants under climatic extremes
• Modern toolbox for studying plant responses to combined or sequential abiotic stresses, including new-age omics
• Genome editing and other biotechnological approaches for engineering crop plants against multi-stress conditions
Please note: Frontiers in Plant Science does not accept solely descriptive studies - studies which report responses to treatments and descriptive reports of ‘Omics studies will not be considered if they do not progress biological understanding of these responses.
Climate change has a significant impact on crop productivity and food security. Crop plants need to have resilience to mitigate climate change-induced stresses. In field environments, crop plants often get exposed to harsh, fluctuating, and challenging environments, as well as changing climates with growing incidences of multiple abiotic stresses that can be dual, multifactorial, and/or sequential. The responses of plants to combinations of two or more (dual or multifactorial) stresses can not necessarily be extrapolated from their responses to individual stresses. Historically, most studies were aimed at understanding and deciphering plant responses and adaptation strategies against individual stresses ranging from deficiency/excess of water, hyper salinity, extreme or fluctuating temperatures, harmful UV rays, and heavy metals. But under actual field conditions, a complex interplay of multiple stresses occurs. Combined or sequential occurrences of abiotic stresses may have additional impacts on crop plants than individual occurrences. However, the complex stress responses triggered under combined or sequential stresses have been largely overlooked. Nevertheless, recent years have witnessed advocacy for comprehensive investigations to be undertaken aimed at investigating plant responses and adaptation strategies against combined stresses, including at physiological, cellular, and/or molecular levels. These investigations show us how plants fine-tune their responses through transcriptional/post-transcriptional regulations and regulatory networks.
This Research Topic aims at highlighting the latest advances in our understanding of plant responses and adaptation/tolerance to dual, multifactorial, and sequential abiotic stresses. A further objective is to introduce the advanced toolbox and technologies used in investigating and understanding the plant responses to combined and/or sequential stresses. Articles are expected to address and report current updates and recent advances in the physiological, molecular, and genetic perspectives of combined and sequential stress responses and tolerance in field crops.
Different types of manuscripts including Original Research articles, Method papers, Mini Reviews, Opinion papers, Perspective, Reviews, and Systematic Reviews are welcome from active researchers in this field. The scope of this Research Topic is centered on, but not limited to, the following:
• Crop plants under individual vs coupled abiotic stresses in field environments - stress adaptation and tolerance
• Transcriptional and/or post-transcriptional regulation of plant under combined or sequential abiotic stress scenarios
• Physiological, biochemical, cellular, and/or molecular responses of plants under climatic extremes
• Modern toolbox for studying plant responses to combined or sequential abiotic stresses, including new-age omics
• Genome editing and other biotechnological approaches for engineering crop plants against multi-stress conditions
Please note: Frontiers in Plant Science does not accept solely descriptive studies - studies which report responses to treatments and descriptive reports of ‘Omics studies will not be considered if they do not progress biological understanding of these responses.
